FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable

pengie2 writes "The FCC has unanimously approved the U.S. Justice Department's bid to expand CALEA to broadband and VoIP networks, according to reports from SecurityFocus and News.com. This means, following a mandatory public comment period, service providers will have to wire their networks for easy law enforcement surveillance, the way phone companies do now. The feds have wanted this for a long time." Ebon Praetor adds a link to Reuters' version, writing "In addition, the FCC has decided that the push-to-talk, or walkie-talkie, functions available on phones from Nextel should also be subject to the same tapping regulations that regular phones are."

Comments

Law jumping through hoops? NOT

[waspleg]

its called the patriot act and all they need is suspicion

in addition to that lets not forget they want an expansion of both power and time (right now the patriot act is set to expire in 2005, lessee how far that gets if bush/asscroft get re-elected) for said anti-constitution

enjoy your police state and dont' forget you only get 3 national sick days per year and then we feed you to the matter disintegration chamber for spare parts so you aren't a drain on our perfectly civilized society.

and for hte mods with itchy troll fingers try the reply button you half witted scum fucks =)